Photoessay #2784 - We could make this funny....

Bottom line:  I need 2 Disneyland hats.  If you are in the Seattle area and can help me out, let me know.

So I'm taking this Landscape Archaeology class which is very challenging.  The tacit arrangement that I accepted by taking this class was that I would have the same status as every other student in the class.  I would not have a degraded status.  But I would also have to do all of the work.

Much of the grade depends on presentations done at the end of the quarter plus a 10 page paper.  He had a bunch of different topics,  He paired class members up and assigned topics.  So K is my partner; an undergraduate archaeology student.  She's stressed; 2 jobs; 3 classes; not always at class.  Our topic: movement.

This threw us into baffled chaos for most of the quarter.  We did our required meeting with the professor.  He gives use two books, I've been looking but we're still lost.  Originally (and still), I was going to talk generally and she was going to do some kind of case study.  So I've been working with the books and power point based mainly on this Neolithic British monument stuff we've been doing. 

Earlier this afternoon,, we meet  at a busy Starbucks on the Ave.  I show her my stuff, she's talking about a case study with a 15th century pocket sundial.  It's not really hanging together.  We start joking about Disneyland as a monument (there's a lot of similarities) and IKEA.

Me:: We could make this funny if we wanted.
K: We could.

What if we used Disneyland as a case study instead of Third Century BC English country side stone monument?

The more we talk about it; the more it works.

So I'll change my presentation all around.  I'll be the straight man, totally setting her up.  I'll work in castles and mountains and berms into my talk.  I'll emphasize pilgrimage, but will NOT mention Disneyland.  Totally straight.  Then, I'll end with a power point slide with just the stylized Disney castle logo.  If we find hats, we'll turn around and put our Disneyland hats on and she's going to present Disneyland as the case study.  Hee hee, it will be pretty funny; we're having a great time with it.


This class has not been very funny; in fact I can hardly remember a laughing moment.  Maybe last week, when we had a mock debate on post-processual archaeology.  Really...it was funny.